Bag Lady - Pack Light
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messygorgeousFor the first week after the move we lived entirely out of boxes. My kids were away and I had to finish summer reading at the library. It was a week of slow progress and fast food. I was seriously down to my last pair of clean underwear when we finally got the washing machine set up - I thought I was out - I'd even worn my Oscar the Grouch "grouchy pants" that were bought solely as a novelty item! My only option was going commando until I remembered I hadn't emptied a suitcase after my son's karate tournament in July and uncovered two clean thongs - yay!
I was able to take last week off work to get the house in order - and ferry the kids to all their school open houses and orientations. My daughter starts high school this week - madness - surely I am too young to have a high school kiddo? - and my son is now a 7th grader!
Anyway, I tried to do a room a day. It was a good goal but not reachable, especially when I realized that the way our builder graded our lot, we have runoff creeks forming on both sides of the house so I had to spend two afternoons out in the rain digging in these drainage areas to keep from having a moat form around the property. YAY new construction!
Progress inside?
* Dining room - 90% organized - I can't put the liquor cabinet back together yet because there's a piece of furniture in front of it I couldn't move. Lots of bottles on the floor at the moment.
*Kitchen and Pantry - Done - Pantry could use some final organization - beans next to canned eats because protein or next to canned vegetables? These are the questions that haunt me. I've cooked three meals so far though plus some bread and a batch of cookies!
*Master Suite - 50% finished. Bathroom is done - it was the first thing I arranged. That was the space I had to arrange to get some sense of normalcy when everything else was a mess. In the bedroom the bookshelves remain unladen and my closet is full of clothes but its all a jumble. I need to build my ClosetMaid shelves and drawers to get some semblance of order in there.
*Living room - 25% done. We have television! Alexa is online! We've decided to go without cable and stream everything but since the house was new, there was no cable run to it yet. That was installed 10 days after the move. It says something about our family when I tell you it didn't feel right in the house until we got Alexa up and running, playing movies and music - and gathering all our personal family information again! Ahh, sweet invasion of privacy.
But, we have no living room furniture! The old stuff was 20 years old so we finally ordered new. It's all coming on the 15th. For the time being, we are either sitting on the floor or on kitchen chairs when it's time for our family Walking Dead marathons. I included a picture of the first night the kids were there. They decided to make a fort from their blankets and moving boxes and we all got in for dinner and zombies.
*Library - 75% finished. All the books are on the shelves but you know it will take me some time to arrange them just so.
*The kids put their rooms together fast.
*I haven't touched the basement, garage or guest bedroom.
I haven't hung any art yet and we don't have towel racks or toilet paper holders on the walls.
I also need new silverware and dinnerware. We got rid of all our ancient, faded, rusted and cracked stuff when we moved and eating off paper plates with plastic-ware is getting old!
It's getting there but I'm definitely not ready for the housewarming party yet.
I was able to take last week off work to get the house in order - and ferry the kids to all their school open houses and orientations. My daughter starts high school this week - madness - surely I am too young to have a high school kiddo? - and my son is now a 7th grader!
Anyway, I tried to do a room a day. It was a good goal but not reachable, especially when I realized that the way our builder graded our lot, we have runoff creeks forming on both sides of the house so I had to spend two afternoons out in the rain digging in these drainage areas to keep from having a moat form around the property. YAY new construction!
Progress inside?
* Dining room - 90% organized - I can't put the liquor cabinet back together yet because there's a piece of furniture in front of it I couldn't move. Lots of bottles on the floor at the moment.
*Kitchen and Pantry - Done - Pantry could use some final organization - beans next to canned eats because protein or next to canned vegetables? These are the questions that haunt me. I've cooked three meals so far though plus some bread and a batch of cookies!
*Master Suite - 50% finished. Bathroom is done - it was the first thing I arranged. That was the space I had to arrange to get some sense of normalcy when everything else was a mess. In the bedroom the bookshelves remain unladen and my closet is full of clothes but its all a jumble. I need to build my ClosetMaid shelves and drawers to get some semblance of order in there.
*Living room - 25% done. We have television! Alexa is online! We've decided to go without cable and stream everything but since the house was new, there was no cable run to it yet. That was installed 10 days after the move. It says something about our family when I tell you it didn't feel right in the house until we got Alexa up and running, playing movies and music - and gathering all our personal family information again! Ahh, sweet invasion of privacy.
But, we have no living room furniture! The old stuff was 20 years old so we finally ordered new. It's all coming on the 15th. For the time being, we are either sitting on the floor or on kitchen chairs when it's time for our family Walking Dead marathons. I included a picture of the first night the kids were there. They decided to make a fort from their blankets and moving boxes and we all got in for dinner and zombies.
*Library - 75% finished. All the books are on the shelves but you know it will take me some time to arrange them just so.
*The kids put their rooms together fast.
*I haven't touched the basement, garage or guest bedroom.
I haven't hung any art yet and we don't have towel racks or toilet paper holders on the walls.
I also need new silverware and dinnerware. We got rid of all our ancient, faded, rusted and cracked stuff when we moved and eating off paper plates with plastic-ware is getting old!
It's getting there but I'm definitely not ready for the housewarming party yet.
